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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with @shahinvallee.bsky.social to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!

Here's the early vote in the NYC mayor's race: 52% Mamdani, 40% Cuomo, 8% Sliwa. Stay tuned! web.enrboenyc.us/OF11CY0PY3.h...

France's budget drama will come at steep cost for public finances • Political instability and loss in investor confidence are fuelling borrowing costs • France's ten-year borrowing costs are now roughly on a par with those of Italy

@adamtooze.bsky.social at the New School for the inaugural @lrb.co.uk lecture

Extraordinary Mamdani speech defending Muslim life in the US. a breath of fresh air to see a politician standing up for principles. Standards in the US have fallen so low lately…

This is a truly great film, probably the best film I’ve seen in 2025 (it was released in France in 2024...). Boris Lojkine tackles the issue of immigration and its various layers of exploitation with realism and subtlety. Compelling and disturbing. youtu.be/Rbs53_uMw9o

China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition" cetex.org/publications...

Par rapport à 2024: Le RN confirme sa large domination (33-34%). Le bloc macroniste recule nettement (14-16%). LR remontent un peu (12-13%). Reconquête en hausse (5-6%). Le NFP, le meilleur scénario, mais il mais baisse par rapport à 2024 (-4%). Le PS confirme qu’il est le premier parti à gauche.

Great move! Merz is picking up on a proposal his predecessor as party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested to him in our pages back in May ip-quarterly.com/en/op-ed-how...

One of the most important charts in the world - from Rush Doshi in the New York Times. Without its allies, the United States is woefully behind China in metrics of raw economic power. Too bad the US president does not seem to get it. 1/

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Absolutely fantastic piece on the interfaces between climate risk and insurance in the Polycrisis newsletter today, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social Not a doom loop, but “communities of fate” and the moral economy of the welfare state. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Great speech on the foundational role of the rule of law for Europe and the Euro

on.ft.com/4lZ4i7X France’s curse and Bayrou’s political suicide

France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit— As he has done in the past, Macron should force Bayrou to carry on his obligations temporarily as a caretaker and… www.ft.com/content/1f8d... @shahinvallee.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/3JtO0X9 France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit

For reasons, checking in on foreign official holdings of US treasuries at the Fed. Now down $100 billion since 'Liberation day'. Note: That latest data point with the biggest weekly drop yet is from *before* Trump's attempted firing of the Fed governor. Next release will be interesting (Thursday).

« Le monde ne nous regarde pas avec bienveillance : il n’attend pas la lenteur de nos rituels communautaires pour nous imposer sa force. [Il] exige de nous une transformation radicale. » Un nouvel avertissement salubre de Mario Draghi, via le @grandcontinent.bsky.social.

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy” on.ft.com/3HH41Ze

🪧 Le 17 août 2025, des dizaines de milliers d’Israéliens étaient rassemblés pour demander la fin de la guerre. Mais qu'en est-il du sort des #palestiniens ? 👉 Quelques réponses avec Denis Charbit, politiste, Sylvaine Bulle, sociologue et Elad Lapidot, professeur d'études hébraïques

"Even if the 'window of opportunity' for a more profound Social Europe had been grasped in the 1970s, how different would it have turned out to be?" From 2023, Neil Warner reviews Social Europe, The Road not Taken, by Aurélie Dianara Andry

Spot-on by Gilles Gressani (@grandcontinent.bsky.social‬): "Europe’s submission [...] amounts to the rejection of any substantial autonomy in exchange for protection." www.ft.com/content/0fa0...

On Monday, join us for: ARGENTINA’S DEBT TRAP A discussion on Argentina, debt, and the IMF with: Julia Strada, Chris Marsh, ‪@nakedkeynes.bsky.social‬, Hernan Letcher, and Maria Haro Sly. Register here: bit.ly/argentina-fmi Below, a 🧵 on relevant pieces from the archive—

1/ Trump's recent trade agreements with allies are revealing significant interpretation gaps. From Japan to South Korea to the EU, these deals lack formal documentation, creating ongoing disputes over fundamental terms.

Peut-on sortir de la civilisation du #plastique ? Une émission à réécouter sur le site france culture.

"While EDIP and SAFE represent the EU's most ambitious defense industrial initiatives to date, their design reveals the persistence of the same fundamental contradictions that have shaped European defense policy for over seven decades."

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

« La fête est un moment de désordre organisé », d'après Philippe Steiner. 👉 Vous pouvez réécouter l'émission de vendredi « Où va la fête ? » avec Philippe Steiner, Emmanuelle Lallement et Alexandre Grondeau sur le site de France Culture.

Fascinating look at the air battle between India and Pakistan, which involved over a hundred planes and amounts to the Kursk of recent air warfare. tl;dr: amateurs talk about planes, professionals talk about situational awareness. Both sides (and outside observers) now learning from the outcome.

4/ "Why US tariffs haven’t been passed through even more to higher US prices? -effective rate today is “only” 8.8% now...but the effective rate is about to double - radical volatility of the tariffs ended; now seem “permanent” →Conjecture: pass through will accelerate this quarter"- Richard Baldwin

More breaking news on an already eventful day! This gives President Trump new opportunities regarding the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, including the possibility to nominate in the next few days a de facto “shadow chair” should he wish to do so…. 1 of 2

"Around 55 percent of arms imports by European states between 2019–2023 came from the US, up from 35 percent between 2014–2018." NEW @dzurstrassen.bsky.social reviews the persistent obstacles of European defense policy, from the EU's founding to the SAFE program.

The mass unrest during the summer of 2020 “certainly did not cause the sacking of the Capitol,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues. “But that winter siege amounted to an outgrowth of the summer revolt—the rotten fruit of imitation.”

Une analyse fine de cette débâcle et de ce qu’elle appelle comme sursaut. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/2...

It was all written for a moment. This EU-US deal should not be a surprise ip-quarterly.com/en/how-eu-bo...

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller

In what must be my most poorly timed newsletter publication time ever, this week’s MFN is about why it’s actually quite difficult to compare Japan’s deal with Trump and the UK’s deal with Trump. (Japan has seemingly done some clever things.) mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/turning-ja...

EU and US locked in talks ahead of key Trump meeting with von der Leyen

Did you know that the bilateral current account between the EU and the US is roughly zero? You thought the EU had a massive surplus, didn't you, just like Donald Trump does? on.ft.com/4eW25Ik

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Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Great new CER paper from tech expert Zach Meyers. Zach warns the EU against giving any tech concessions to team Trump like the UK did to clinch a trade 'deal' - for three key reasons. 1/2 www.cer.eu/insights/tra...

‘In an era of growing uncertainty in American politics…closer British-French nuclear cooperation is a prudent strategic hedge,’ argues @rgwhitman.bsky.social @kent.ac.uk #BigAsk #BritainsWorld